Here’s Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek: “It is often said in Washington these days that conservatives are full of fresh ideas while liberals defend old orthodoxies. At least in the realm of fighting poverty, the opposite is true. On those few occasions when they think about the subject, conservatives recite a stale catechism of clichés based on virtually no research or experience. You’ve heard them often: foreign aid is a waste, all of it ends up in Swiss banks; poor countries should just free up their markets and they will grow; Africans don’t want to work.”

Africans don’t want to work? I don’t recall a conservative ever saying such a thing. This is another example of how the media portrays the Right as racist, without a shred of evidence. Talk about old orthodoxies.